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The UK government's Flexible Working Bill goes into Royal Assent fulfilling the first step towards building a strong labour market and increasing UK productivity.
How is this a breakthrough to getting a real piece of legislation that gets passed that can change americans lives? that remains to be seen. there have been a lot of wet felt like breakthrough moments in infrastructure, we are definitely not there. but the democrats have basically agreed on sort of working bill. they agree on amongst themselves. and if they agree on it amongst themselves, and they have that agreement that encompasses all 50 democratic senators, they might be able to pass that without any republican votes at all. so, potentially, this could be it. but there is still many hurdle...
On and in fact celebrating today is this latest move toward actually getting a bill done on the issue of infrastructure. they've seen lots of headlines about this late last night and today. what does this mean in the grand scheme of things? how close is this latest apparent breakthrough to there being a real piece of legislation that actually gets passed, that ultimately ends up changing americans' lives? that remains to be seen. there have been a lot of what felt like breakthrough moments on infrastructure. we're definitely still not there. but the democrats have basically agreed on now a wor...
Meanwhile, negotiations are still underway on police reform. republicans now countering democrats' request to change the criminal standard for police prosecution. that part of the working bill known as section 242 includes four crimes, obstruction of justice, theft, sexual assault and excessive use of force. instead of creating a new criminal standard for all four crimes, sources tell nbc news republicans are expected to accept the democrats' proposal for two. theft and sexual assault. as for the other remaining crimes, the sources say lawmakers will will remove obstruction of justice from the...
>> wouldn't that be a detriment to your working bill? >> we're seeing a violence brought on by hate and more. we need to do more to protect all americans. >> senator harris also called it a modern-day lynching when smollett first told his story. tr trump tweeted out a response. i have a self-correction. it's laura barron-lopez. i owe her coffee at cups for the next several weeks. this is a really important issue. >> no. it is they don't have a member in congress and they haven't since november, and so as you mentioned, what happened is